Heel shaping or compressing machine



(No Model.)

0. W. GLIDDEN.

HEEL SHAPING 0R GOMPRESSING MACHINE.

No. 454,428. Patented June 16,1891.

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(HARLES XV. JIJIDDEN, OF LYNN, ASSIGNOR TO JAMES \V. BROOKS, TRUSTEE, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

HEEL SHAPING OR COMPRESSING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of -Illietters Patent No. 454,428, dated June 16, 1891.

Application filed November 4, 1890. Serial No. 370,341. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: the central pinof one of them, a link X con- Be it known that I, CHARLES IV. GLIDDEN, necting the central pins of both toggles. The of Lynn, county of Essex, State of Massachu said bar has a roller or other stud actuated by setts, have invented an Improvement in Ileel a cam f 011 a shaft f adapted to be rotated in 5 Shaping or Compressing Machines, of which suitable hearings on the frame-work.

the following description, in connection with A heel-blank h to be compressed and shaped the accompanying drawings, is a specification, is placed against the heel-seat plate 6, and the like letters on the drawings representing like machine is started. The heel at first contacts parts. with the inner edges of the compressors or to In the formation of heels for boots or shoes jaws, and as the blank is being compressed the tread end of the heel is concaved and the the jaws or compressors are made to rock or peripheral edges or outer walls of the heel are turn on their pivots,which brings their acting shaped by pressure. faces closer togctherto thus squeeze or com- This invention has for its obj ect the producpressbetween them the heel, the edge or the pe- .r 5 tion of a novel form of machine for this purriphery of which is to be compressed. During 6 5 pose. this movement the acting faces of the toggle- In accordance with myinvention Ihaveprolike jaws travel with and in the direction of vided a series ofrocking or vibratory heel edge movement of the heel. To prevent the heel or wall compressors or jaws, the acting edges from being lifted too high between the jaws,

20 of which, as the compressors are rocked or I have provided a top-lift plate or abutment 7o turned on their pivots, approach each other, it, shown as attached to the lower end of a thus squeezing the heel placed between them. screw or, by which the position of the plate WVit-h these toggle-like rocking jaws or commay be adjusted to the thickness of the heel. pressors I have combined a heel-seat-support- The screw or is mounted, in the present in- 2 5 ing plate, the acting face of which will prefstance, in a yoke 11 mounted on the top barA' erably be convexed in usual manner to con- I am aware thataheel has been compressed cave the heel-seat. at its sides by means of jaws having only a Figurel in yertica]. section showsa machine sliding movement toward the center of the embodying my invention in its simplest form; heel, as in United States Patent No. 361,414,

0 Fig. 2, a top view of the compressors or jaws, and also that aseries of radially-movable dies and Fig. 3 is a detail showing the top liftor carried at the ends of pivoted levers have been tread-plate with part of its attached screw. caused to move toward the center of the heel,

The frame-work AA is and maybe of suitas in United States Patent No. 410,677; but in able shape to sustain the working parts. The this my invention the com1: ressing-jaws are 5 upper part A of the frame-work, as shown, so pivoted with relation to the dies contacthas pivotally mounted thereon a series of toging with the opposite ends of the heel that 'gle-like compressors or jaws a b e (Z, reprethe jaws normally stand open, and when they sented as four in number, each mounted on a close upon the heel, travel with the heel in suitable pivot, as a Z), 850., in cars a b the direction of its movement while being sub- 0 650., the said compressors or jaws being j ected to compression, the acting faces of the 0 adapted to be swung or turned about their dies at the same time closing or moving tosaid pivots, the faces of the compressors or ward each other. jaws in theirnormal position beingmost sepa- I clain1- rated to permit the ready entrance between In a machine for compressing heels, a heel 45 them of the heel-blank h (shown in dotted seat plate andtread-plate, one of which is stalines, Fig. 1) to be compressed. tionary and one movable, combined with a The heel-seat block or plate 6 is mounted series of togglelike compressing-jaws pivoted on the verticallymovable slide 6, herein at or near their ends near that one of the said shown as actuated vertically by two pairs of plates which is stationary, wherebythe said 50 toggle-levels ff, having a bar f jointed to jaws are adapted to open away from the sta- IOO tionary toward the movable plate and away from each other, the said jaws in their closing movement traveling with and in the direction of movement of the heel while being compressed, the acting edges of the said jaws at thesanie time approaching each other, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES XV. GLIDDEN.

Witnesses:

ALBION VEAZIE, ELBRIDGE B. STAPLES. 

